Monday, February 28, 2011

Philip Roth’s Alexander Portnoy channels Duke Snider

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“Duke Snider, a Prince of New York’s Golden Age of Baseball, Dies at 84” reads the headline in today’s obituary in The New York Times and ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Djuna Barnes remembers what it was like to be young and uncomfortable in the theater

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In a recent Guardian blog post David Jays reminds us that “autobiographical writing about theatre is typically a blend of myth and memory....
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Bill Moyers interviews James K. Galbraith about how John Kenneth Galbraith might have viewed the 2008 financial crisis

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In November 2010, to celebrate the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society and Other Writings 1952–1967 , Bill Moyers en...
Friday, February 18, 2011

On Toni Morrison’s 80th birthday: Remembering her friendship with James Baldwin

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Today, February 18, marks the eightieth birthday of Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, editor, and educator. In 1998 ...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Guillermo del Toro to direct H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness; Edmund Wilson and Cthulhu

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Daniel Zalewski’s recent New Yorker profile of director Guillermo del Toro ( Pan’s Labyrinth ) chronicled his passionate efforts to develop...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Henry James’s The Bostonians, published 125 years ago today, sparks a scandal

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The Bostonians proved one of the most troubling of Henry James’s publishing efforts. It first appeared in thirteen installments in The Cent...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent Millay “America’s foremost love poet”?

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Complaining about the pressure she feels every year on Valentine’s Day, Bonnie Stewart blogs that she finds “the words I’d like to steal” f...
Friday, February 11, 2011

George Kimball and John Schulian share their favorite boxing stories about Ali-Frazier, Stanley Ketchel, Bummy Davis

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In a just-posted exclusive interview (PDF) with The Library of America, veteran sports journalists George Kimball and John Schulian describ...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Twenty poets celebrate the 100th birthday of Elizabeth Bishop in New York City

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Last night poetry lovers filled the 900-seat Great Hall at Cooper Union to hear twenty poets celebrate the 100th birthday of Elizabeth Bisho...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Forthcoming from The Library of America (Summer–Fall 2011)

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We are pleased to announce the Library of America’s Summer–Fall 2011 publication schedule, an exciting list of titles which displays the qua...
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